Re: aarrggghhh !!!!

Rob Glover (potato@dsnet.com)
Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:02:30 -0800 (PST)


strip your libc.

(i.e. if you have libc-5.4.13 installed)
hit the following:
cd /lib
strip libc.so.5.4.13

or, when you compile a program, do "strip program.filename"

The file is so large because the libc is compiled with -g1, and all the
symbols are kept in, for debugging purposes.

-Rob

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Tekno Soft Snc wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I've installed last libc, binutils and ld.so (required by 2.1.x kernel),
> removed old versions, but when I compile this dummy.c
>
> void main();
>
> void main()
> {
> }
>
> the size is 100K !!
>
> root> gcc -o dummy dummy.c
> root> l dummy
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104299 Nov 20 11:15 dummy*
>
> why this size ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Roberto Fichera - email MC3641@mclink.it
>
>
>
> Xmeo ver.3.0 Alpha for Linux & Windows
>
>